diocese of Chester; K.B. £27 3s. 4d.; An. Val. P.R. £100. It is endowed with £1200 by private benefaction, the crown, and a parliamentary grant; patron. Lord Crew. The town has many charitable institutions. The widow of the immortal Milton resided here several years before her death, and here died in 1726. Nantwich is the only town in the county which, in the Civil Wars, uniformly adhered to the Parliamentary party. It suffered, however, severely, although it several times repelled the Royalist forces with great slaughter. The town was visited by the plague (1604), which carried off upwards of 500 persons, at that time probably more than half its inhabitants.
Sandbach is a market-town, parish, and township, in the hundred of Northwich, county of Chester, situated on an eminence near the river Wheelock; Pop, town and parish, 7,214, of town, 3,710; An.As.Val. £8,169. Market-day. Thursday; fairs, on Easter Thursday, first Thursday after September 12, for cattle and horses. It was formerly celebrated for its malt liquor, and also for the manufacture of worsted yarn and stuffs for country wear, but its trade has much declined. The church is dedicated to St. Mary, and bas a lofty steeple; the living is a vicarage, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Chester; K.B. £15 10s. 2½d.; patron. Rev. J. Armistead. Here are places of worship for various denominations of dissenters, and an endowed school. In the market-place were two crosses, ornamented with a carved representation of the cru-
